Charles Clegg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Clegg

American photographer and historian

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1916

Place of Birth: Youngstown, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1979

Profession: photographer, historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Charles Clegg

  • Charles Myron Clegg Jr.
  • (June 29, 1916 – August 25, 1979) was an American author, photographer, and railroad historian.
  • Clegg is primarily remembered as the lifelong companion of famed railroad author Lucius Beebe, and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books. Born into an old New England family, Clegg grew up in Rhode Island, and during his early years developed strong interests in railroads, electronics, and photography.
  • In 1940, Clegg met Beebe while both were house guests at the Washington, D.C.
  • home of Evalyn Walsh McLean.
  • The two soon became inseparable, developing a personal and professional relationship that continued for the rest of Beebe's life. The pair initially lived in New York City, where Beebe was a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune and both men were prominent in café society circles.
  • Eventually tiring of that social life, the two moved in 1950 to Virginia City, Nevada, a tiny community that had once been a fabled mining boomtown.
  • There, they reactivated and began publishing the Territorial Enterprise, a fabled 19th-century newspaper that had once been the employer of Mark Twain.
  • Beebe and Clegg shared a renovated mansion in the town, and also owned a private railroad car, redone in a Victorian Baroque style.
  • The pair traveled extensively, and remained prominent in social circles. Clegg and Beebe sold the Territorial Enterprise in 1961, and purchased a home in suburban San Francisco.
  • They continued the writing, photography, and travel that had marked their lives until Beebe's death from a heart attack in 1966.
  • Beebe left the bulk of his $2 million estate to Clegg (with provision for T-Bone Towser II, their Newfoundland).
  • Clegg committed suicide in 1979, on the day that he reached the precise age at which Beebe had died. Beebe authored over thirty-five books during his lifetime, approximately half of which were in collaboration with Clegg.
  • It is likely that Clegg's contributions were primarily photographic in nature; his images were known for an expressive quality that helped broaden the artistic scope of railroad photography.
  • The library of photographs produced by Clegg and Beebe are now in the collections of the California State Railroad Museum.

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